Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard clashed with Vassar in a no-decision debate last night in the Lowell House Common Room. The contest ended with the proverbial woman's last word, which in this case was "I don't believe you." The subject was: "Resolved, That women are fitted to serve as jurors...
...legions were dispelled in the face of the next negative speaker, Donald McDonald '39. He proceeded to show that if women were allowed to be jurors, the family bridge tables would become deserted, and would make it necessary to take suits away from the deck. "And where would the woman be without her heart, and the matron without her club...
Watchers on the river heard a woman scream as the oarsman, Phillip Brooks '39, settled into the chilly water, pulled his boat to shore, and was helped out by an obliging Metropolitan Police officer who had rushed to the scene to ask, "Did you fall...
...SINGLE HOUND-May Sarton- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Plaintive first novel by a 26-year-old poetess, in which an aging spinster in a Belgian garden brings peace to a tormented young Englishman, emotionally ravaged by an affair with a married woman...
...first 290 pages, explaining the tangled circumstances of the family inheritance, are dull. The next 200 pages are better. The emotional, shrinking, 15-year-old Laurent Pasquier discovers that his father is keeping a woman, calls on her to ask that she give up the old man. When he is tricked by both the mistress and his father, Laurent denounces him, is dumfounded to learn that everybody knows about this affair and many others besides. The oldest boy, Joseph, escapes the family by turning himself into a money-making machine; the dull and stupid Ferdinand marries a girl as secretive...